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Urban Planet: Pothole Advertising
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites...
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Urban Planet: Participatory Mapping
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites...
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Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Grand Central’s dirty secret
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. High above commuter’s heads...
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A Taste for Montreal: Hot Dogs for Humanity
For three years I volunteered with Dans la Rue van, handing out hot dogs to Montreal’s homeless on Monday evenings. The first thing volunteers learn...
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Urban Planet: Habitat 67 in LEGO?
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Urban Planet: The Urban Genome Project
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
My First Time
I am not ready for a career in politics. Not that I was ever planning one; but after attending my borough’s council meeting for the first time last...
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Spacing Saturday: Downtown Halifax, Evolving Big Box and Demographic Bombs
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Vancouver’s...
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Urban Planet: Insull’s Chicago Transit Posters
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
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The People’s Yellow Pages – A Guide to 1970s Underground Montreal
When I met Santropol owner Garth Gilker to talk about the café’s impact on the urban landscape, I ended up with more stories than I had bargained...
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Urban Planet: DIY Crosswalks in Baltimore
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
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A Taste for Montreal: How Santropol May Have Saved St-Urbain & Duluth
Garth Gilker moved in to the third floor of the triplex on the corner of Duluth and St-Urbain street around 1970. An anglo Gaspésien, Gilker says that he...
By Alanah Heffez
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered